www.midhudsonnews.com

The $950,000 tiller truck, custom-built by Spartan / Smeal, carries an aerial ladder over 100-feet long, capable of reaching tall buildings in Kingston such as the Ulster County Office Building, and the soon -to-be built HealthAlliance Hospital tower.

Wsoctv

GREAT FALLS, S.C. - The South Carolina Highway Patrol has identified the man killed after an ambulance was involved in a crash along Highway 97 in Chester County near Great Falls Wednesday afternoon. Troopers said the ambulance went off the side of the road, overcorrected, and then traveled into the path of an oncoming car, hitting it head-on.

Thekansan

For a few years the Newton Fire/EMS department used borrowed equipment to help nursing homes and businesses practice using fire extinguishers - and it was a system that left those places needing to recharge several of their extinguishers when the training was over."We would show up with a pan of combustable material, go into their parking lot and light it on fire," said Phillip Beebee of Newton Fire/EMS. "They would bring out all of their fire extinguishers ...

www.hometown-pages.com

Pictured in front of the firefighters is their new equipment, including a cutter, spreader, ram and stabilization kit. The equipment is much needed, but hopefully never used.

opelikaobserver.com

By Morgan Bryce Associate Editor Members of the Salem Volunteer Fire Department welcomed the addition of two new fire trucks last week. Purchased from emergency goods supplier NAFECO of Decatur, Alabama, the trucks, a pumper and a tanker, possess similar accessories already used by other SVFD vehicles and are designed to meet Insurance Service Office rating standards.